The situation is based on my experience. Please leave the idea of this tests and don't ask why.
Scenario:
On Lenovo T400 I have installed VMware Workstation 7. I have created virtual machine with ESX3.5u4. There were no problems with installing it. After that, in virtualized ESX3.5u4 I have created another virtual machine with Debian 6.0 Squeeze 32 bit. To launch it as we all know, we need to add a line "monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE" to .vmx file of ESX3.5u4 VM.
After installing VMware Tools on Debian 6.0 Squeeze VM, I`am launching vmware-config and get errors:
"This configuration program is to be executed in a virtual machine.
Execution aborted."
I'am also checking sh scripts from /usr/bin/
vmware-questd
The VMware service must be run from within a virtual machine.
Log: The VMware service must be run from within a virtual machine.
Log: Backtrace:
Log: Backtrace[0] 0xbff552d8 eip 0x8072131
Log: Backtrace[1] 0xbff556f8 eip 0x80768b6
Log: Backtrace[2] 0xbff55708 eip 0x8067f88
Log: Backtrace[3] 0xbff55748 eip 0x804c9e4
Log: Backtrace[4] 0xbff557c8 eip 0xb7628c76
Log: Backtrace[5] 00000000 eip 0x804a961
vmware-user
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin32/vmware-user: error while loading shared libraries:
libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
vmware-checkvm
Couldn't get version
vmware-hgfsclient
[hgfsclient] WARNING: This application must be run in a Virtual Machine.
vmware-toolbox
PANIC: The VMware Toolbox must be run inside a virtual machine.
vmware-tools-upgrader
Log: HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Log: HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.
PANIC: The VMware Tools Upgrader application must be run in a Virtual Machine.
Can anybody explain how VMware tools are recognizing if they are in virtual machine?
